I'm in PAE now (I hate only using half of my CPU). Should I do a fresh boot before trying that or do you think I'd be safe(-er) to try that once my Webilder get in the vm is done? Either way I'll transcribe the steps to make sure I have them handy if I wind up back at the console to log back in.

I didn't think I needed to reboot but I've been fighting the drivers enough I wanted to ask. On a side note, my install got me bitten by the no audio bug but the tip in the LMDE KDE UP5 thread got it fixed pretty easily. I'll let you know how things go driver wise after the reboot.

ETA: I forgot to mention that when I finally did the manual install the nvidia-glx looked like it hadn't been installed, and I had forgotten to blacklist nouveau. About to try the new set of steps.

It turns out we both forgot to have me run sudo nvidia-xconfig before the reboot because I got an 800x600 resolution screen when I booted back in. I still have the complaint form KWin, plus I'm noticing some bowing in the Note plasmoid on my desktop. Hopefully this screenshot will show what I'm talking about.

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ETA: I did some checking on the effects issue and found a reference to the compositing type in Desktop Effects > Advanced. It turns out I was using the XRender compositing and once I changed it to OpenGL it looks like I've gotten my effects back. I'm not sure what's causing the bowing though.

It amazes me every time that graphics seem to be different for each system

Talking about DDM:Clem and others are making me change a lot in DDM: looks, but especially handling of graphics drivers.The next version we'll be able to activate different drivers per graphics card (thus switching between drivers).A lot of work is still to be done (and the December month is one of the busiest of the year) so I hope I get it ready when UP6 comes out.

Who knew something as seemingly simple as graphics drivers could turn out to be such a royal pain in the rear? I'll do what I can to help test things, especially since now I know how to keep my laptop from booting to the terminal. I bet the rest of the Mint community has little to no idea how nice it will be when they can simply fire up DDM to install the PAE kernel and drivers. Thanks for putting so much work into it for us!

Ah, I have never configured beyond installing nvidia-current; the current better solution was taken care of by Bumblebee and I don't know what exactly it does on system level beyond modifying the kernel (with bbswitch), installing nvidia-current and activating Intel graphics as the default. I'd love to help if you want to see some system config files or anything.

Thank you for this thread. That’s all I can say. You most definitely have made this forum into something special. You clearly know what you are doing, you’ve covered so many bases. Thanks!

bimsebasse wrote:Ah, I have never configured beyond installing nvidia-current; the current better solution was taken care of by Bumblebee and I don't know what exactly it does on system level beyond modifying the kernel (with bbswitch), installing nvidia-current and activating Intel graphics as the default. I'd love to help if you want to see some system config files or anything.

I'll get back to you when I'm at the point of implementing hybrid chipsets.For now I have my hands full with the upcoming DDM.